Job 4:17

Geneva Bible (1560)

Shall man be more iust then God? or shall a man be more pure then his maker?

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  • Job 9:2 : 2 I knowe verily that it is so: for howe should man compared vnto God, be iustified?
  • Job 25:4 : 4 And howe may a man be iustified with God? or how can he be cleane, that is borne of woman?
  • Ps 143:2 : 2 (And enter not into iudgement with thy seruant: for in thy sight shall none that liueth, be iustified)
  • Ps 145:17 : 17 The Lord is righteous in all his wayes, and holy in all his workes.
  • Eccl 7:20 : 20 (7:22) Surely there is no man iust in the earth, that doeth good and sinneth not.
  • Jer 12:1 : 1 O Lorde, if I dispute with thee, thou art righteous: yet let mee talke with thee of thy iudgements: wherefore doeth the way of the wicked prosper? why are all they in wealth that rebelliously transgresse?
  • Jer 17:9 : 9 The heart is deceitfull and wicked aboue all things, who can knowe it?
  • Mark 7:20-23 : 20 Then he sayd, That which commeth out of man, that defileth man. 21 For from within, euen out of the heart of men, proceede euill thoughtes, adulteries, fornications, murthers, 22 Theftes, couetousnes, wickednes, deceite, vncleannes, a wicked eye, backbiting, pride, foolishnesse. 23 All these euill things come from within, and defile a man.
  • Rom 2:5 : 5 But thou, after thine hardnesse, and heart that canot repent, heapest vp as a treasure vnto thy selfe wrath against the day of wrath, and of the declaration of the iust iudgement of God,
  • Rom 3:4-7 : 4 God forbid: yea, let God be true, and euery man a lyar, as it is written, That thou mightest be iustified in thy words, and ouercome, when thou art iudged. 5 Now if our vnrighteousnes comend the righteousnes of God, what shal we say? Is God vnrighteous which punisheth? (I speake as a man.) 6 God forbid: els how shal God iudge ye world? 7 For if the veritie of God hath more abounded through my lye vnto his glorie, why am I yet condemned as a sinner?
  • Rom 9:20 : 20 But, O man, who art thou which pleadest against God? shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?
  • Rom 11:33 : 33 O the deepenesse of the riches, both of the wisdome, and knowledge of God! howe vnsearcheable are his iudgements, and his wayes past finding out!
  • Rev 4:8 : 8 And the foure beasts had eche one of them sixe wings about him, and they were full of eyes within, and they ceased not day nor night, saying, Holy, holy, holy Lorde God almighty, Which Was, and Which Is, and Which Is to come.
  • Job 35:2 : 2 Thinkest thou this right, that thou hast said, I am more righteous then God?
  • Job 35:10 : 10 But none saieth, Where is God that made me, which giueth songs in the nyght?
  • Job 40:8 : 8 (40:3) Wilt thou disanul my iudgement? or wilt thou condemne me, that thou mayst be iustified?
  • Job 9:30-31 : 30 If I wash my selfe with snowe water, and purge mine hands most cleane, 31 Yet shalt thou plunge mee in the pit, and mine owne clothes shal make me filthie.
  • Job 14:4 : 4 Who can bring a cleane thing out of filthinesse? there is not one.
  • Job 15:14 : 14 What is man, that he should be cleane? and he that is borne of woman, that he shoulde be iust?
  • Gen 18:25 : 25 Be it farre fro thee from doing this thing, to slay the righteous with the wicked: and that the righteous should be euen as the wicked, be it farre from thee. shall not the Iudge of all the worlde doe right?
  • Job 8:3 : 3 Doeth God peruert iudgement? or doeth the Almightie subuert iustice?

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